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Isabel Wang's Blog
A marketing consultant who focuses on the web hosting industry. http://www.isabelwang.com/ is the home of Isabel Wang's blog.
Saturday April 26, 2008
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 4:04PM EST on April 26, 2008
Liz says Elsa the shelter kitty looks like Rosie the Riverter. I think she's right! Here's the can-do cat, who found herself a home in no time: And here's the Hillary version (seen on msy_nyc's Flickr stream).
Saturday March 29, 2008
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 12:31AM EST on March 29, 2008
1. From Slate.com: Charlotte (age 5) dangled Easter (a Webkinz bunny) out the window. Then let go. Tears. Pandemonium. This is precisely the stuffed animal death that parents fear. Except Eva (age 7) made Charlotte see that it wasn't in...
Friday February 8, 2008
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 8:35PM EST on February 8, 2008
My mom said it makes no sense to go to a bookstore waaay out in Dan Shui, which is about a 30 minute subway ride from Taipei. In the pouring rain, especially. And when there are dozens of bookstores right...
Thursday January 31, 2008
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 2:49PM EST on January 31, 2008
I was reading The Houdini Solution; the last chapter ends with Einstein's Puzzle. Kevin says it can only be solved by 2% of the world's population, but this website claims that the average time to solve it is about an...
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 10:05AM EST on January 31, 2008
I came across this ancient Washington Post ad on Flickr. I had never imagined 1920s businessmen having Chinese food for lunch. Image from rockcreek's Flickr stream Out of curiosity I looked up "1920s Chinese restaurant" and found the Google Books'...
Monday January 28, 2008
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 1:06AM EST on January 28, 2008
There's an interesting article in this week's New York Times Magazine about Kiva, a microfinance non-profit that matches sponsors with third-world entrepreneurs. The organization has generated so much interest among supporters that it sometimes runs out of loan-seekers to give...
Friday January 25, 2008
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 1:03PM EST on January 25, 2008
1. In 2005, Basex, an analyst firm, estimated that interruptions consume 28% of a knowledge worker's day. Basex CEO Jonathan Spira lamented that whether you're at home, in your office, or working from a client site, "the likelihood of being...
Wednesday January 23, 2008
Permalink Posted by: Isabel Wang at 1:08PM EST on January 23, 2008
Would you buy DialUpISP.com (the domain name, with no customers/equipment/etc attached) for $5K? That was its owner's asking price at yesterday's DomainFest auction (spotted via DomainNameNews). No takers. Still, if you think *nobody* uses dialup any more, you'd be wrong....